Philip Island and Queen Victoria Market

28 Dec 2007 - Philip Island

This time, all 8 of us went coz the Melbournians had not gone to Philip Island yet. We were all dressed in the wrong attire! I was in a sleeveless top and a thin cardigan which i took off later in the day. Philip Island is NOT cold in summer!!


The bus which we spend the whole day travelling in.

Frst stop was at Gurdies Winery, where there was free wine tasting!





Then to Maru Wildlife Park.

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Guinea Pigs!


A sluggish baby wombat!


Smile!


Dingoes.


Sleepy eyed llamas!


Cornered duckies! Haha. We chased them and cornered them and saw them panicked! So cute! See the backside of the other 2 ducks running off?


And of course Kangaroos. The Perthians had seen so many kangaroos that we just stand around helping the Melbournians and Sydnian to take pics with them! Haha!


The huge and heavy koala sitting outside the toilet.

Next stop was Cape Woolamai Surfers Beach. It was here that we realise how wrong our attires was! The waters!!!!











The penguin soft toy we got!

Then it was off to San Remo where we had our pizza dinner!



The last stop before the penguin parade was Nobbies Centre where we were allowed to roam around and look for penguins under boardwalks or hidden in the hills.


And we spied one! Then another 2 more!


One of the nobbies.


Penguins and seagulls share the same territory. Penguins make burrows like the one above and hide inside them until they are old enough (5months if I don't remember wrongly) to come out and go into the waters to hunt.


A lovely place, with splendid weather and wonderful companionship.



A mother seagull and her baby!

Penguin Parade!

Check underneath the cars, coz there are confused penguins!

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And as no cameras is allowed during the Penguin Parade, this is the only picture we have of them. This is a picture of a picture we took while at the wildlife park. Got scolded by the storekeeper. Oops!

The penguins are really cute! And if anyone is going, I suggest you pay an extra 10 bucks for Penguin Plus. This means that you get to sit in a place with lesser people (think 100 vs 2000), and there is a free drink and 10% discount when you buy their souvenirs. So it's more worth it. And the penguins really waddle up really close. You can even walk alongside them along the boardwalk! Really cute. I saw a few fell down and one sneezed. Their recovery after falling down was exceptionally fast too! Aww... I so want to bring one home!

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29 Dec 2007 - Queen Victoria Market, Docklands

The Perthians, Sil and MX went to the Queen Vic Market early in the morning!

Yummilicious, hot jam donuts!!

I like these black dolls. Anyone knows what are they?

Some of the stuffs sold there. From food to clothes to dolls.

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After Queen Vic, the Perthians, together with Sil, made our way down to Smith's Street, where there are lotsa sports stores, for, well, more shopping!! Then we met MX and TLP again for dinner and then we went to Docklands.

The cow up the tree - an art sculpture.

When the Perthians saw the 7 sign, we were so excited!! [7 is a channel here in Aus] Shows how much we watch TV huh!

The Melbourne city skyline at night.

Fun with the sculptures!

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Next: Grampians! I feel tired just thinking about that place! Haha. Maybe becoz I've been at this blog thingy for very long already. Night!